It's the duality of darkness and light that makes Lost Weekend so good

Both sides of Lost Weekend are essential; the desolate ache of loss makes way for new beginnings, and Phoebe Bridgers stands ready to embrace both on her most well-realized album yet

While Bridgers may have recorded this album from a dark place, the prevailing notes are uplifting

Phoebe Bridgers’ third solo album is a masterpiece; she shares personal struggles and transmutes them via wide-ranging sonics, pop culture references and universal themes

For a record so defined by absence, Lost Weekend proves, thankfully, that Bridgers is still very much here

Of course, it’s Bridgers’ lyrics that have long been the puncta of her songs, renowned for their emotional integrity, vividness and wry humour, and here she’s at the top of her game

‘Lost Weekend’ doesn’t contain the cohesion of Phoebe Bridgers’ prior works – an album that sometimes feels like a pair of lungs, inhaling and exhaling, it’s capable of stretching and shrinking to suit her mindset

A dense, introspective opus as complex and unpredictable as its author

Ultimately, despite the tumultuous few years Bridgers has faced, Lost Weekend triumphs as her strongest body of work to date

Where Punisher felt apocalyptic with its closing suite "I Know the End" and a hearty dose of divine timing, Lost Weekend is a transmission from a hero's journey back to herself through a dystopian emotional landscape

A patient uncoiling of her turbulent past, Phoebe Bridgers’ third album will surprise you in impossible ways

The album is a rigorously crafted memorandum charting a period of dissociation

An album of cycles with a lyrical approach as ambitious as anything in modern music

Co-produced alongside Jack Antonoff and Alex G, the singer-songwriter’s first solo album in six years details falling in love, reckoning with grief, and starting over. It’s her most daring, optimistic record yet

Produced by Phoebe, Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska and Jack Antonoff (with Alex G offering "additional production"), 'Lost Weekend' is a deliciously strange record

On the whole, the album is already a knockout. Then you arrive at ‘As Above’, and you will hear Bridgers as you have never heard her before

Airier and stranger than anything she has made: 16 songs split between losing her father and falling headlong in love

Most albums about loss are content to remain within it. This one moves through it, and earns that movement by its conclusion

After sweeping the Grammys and being scrutinised by the press, Bridgers deploys electronics and unsettling sound design to brilliantly evoke emotional turmoil

After a six-year break between solo projects, the songwriter returns with Lost Weekend, a spectacular song cycle on love and loss

Bridgers bleeds her pen dry over lush orchestration that tells the story of love and loss as vividly as her words

For her third solo album, Phoebe Bridgers expands and contracts, capturing experiences that are strange, solitary, and hers alone. It is the quietest, most cohesive record in her discography.